Reni’s Reviews > The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It > Status Update

"The case of the curvaceously thin woman," the media ideal of a woman's body would require size 4 hips, a size 2 waist, and a size 10 bust - practically a physical impossibility. So media have seized on a body type that can be achieved only through artificial techniques and painstaking devotion to artificially creating a certain body image.